Meet the Team

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 Ms. Doran is a Qualified Airport Wildlife Biologist and is primarily responsible for wildlife surveys at airports, airport wildlife hazard assessments, wildlife hazard site visits, wildlife hazard management plans, and airport wildlife hazard management training. Ms. Doran has conducted environmental consulting services at more than 60 airports nationwide and has extensive experience interacting with private, local, state, and federal agencies. Moreover, Ms. Doran manages the Department of Defense (DoD), Air National Guard (ANG) Bird/ Wildlife Aircraft Strike Hazard (BASH) contract with the National Guard Bureau to conduct site visits at all ANG installations across the United States. When not working on aviation wildlife programs, Ms. Doran performs  threatened and endangered species surveys, fauna surveys, wetland assessments and delineations, and assists FWC Authorized Agents with gopher tortoise survey and relocation.

  Mr. Merritt is a retired U.S. Air Force officer who provided C-130 operations support and served as assistant professor of biology (U.S. Air Force Academy), senior staff scientist (Pentagon), and chief of the USAF BASH Team. Mr. Merritt develops wildlife hazard management strategies to resolve conflicts between civilian/military aircraft and wildlife hazards to aviation operations. He provides wildlife hazard mitigation procedural compliance reviews, wildlife risk assessments, wildlife hazard management reduction strategies, wildlife strike data analysis, actionable recommendations, compliant-based wildlife hazard management plans, and interpretation and implementation of military, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, state, and local wildlife-related regulatory procedures to senior military commanders. He has worked at more than 150 civilian and military airfields around the world helping military commanders preserve their unit’s combat capability and mission readiness through a reduction of wildlife hazards while managing protected natural resources. He was also one of the initial architects of the Avian Hazard Advisory System (AHAS) and continues to be actively involved with AHAS developments today.

  Mr. Wilkens is a retired USAF officer whose career included master navigation of the KC-135 and various staff positions within the Air Force, including headquarters USAF Safety Center. Mr. Wilkens develops wildlife hazard management strategies to resolve conflicts between military aircraft and wildlife hazards to aviation operations. He provides wildlife hazard mitigation procedural compliance reviews, wildlife risk assessments, wildlife hazard management reduction strategies, wildlife strike data analysis, actionable recommendations, compliant-based wildlife hazard management plans, and interpretation and implementation of military, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, state, and local wildlife-related regulatory procedures to senior military commanders. He has worked at more than 130 civilian and military airfields around the world helping military commanders preserve their unit’s combat capability and mission readiness through a reduction of wildlife hazards while managing protected natural resources.

He has worked at over 90 civilian and military airfields around the world assisting military commanders preserve their unit’s combat capability and mission readiness through a reduction of wildlife hazards while concurrently managing protected natural resources.

  Ms. Allerton is vice president, environmental, for Bristol Bay Construction Holdings and the general manager of SES-ERS. She is a subject matter expert who provides expert testimony on ecological services, including airport wildlife hazards, wetland assessments and delineations, environmental resource permitting, mitigation planning, master planning studies, NEPA, and state-required studies. Her clients are predominantly aviation authorities, military installations, and state road authorities.